Africa

World Cup Tragedy Of South Africa

The urge in the beginning had been to entitle this piece “The Death of African Solidarity”. It took no time at all for me to...

South Africa: We Are All Victims

South Africa has pursued post-apartheid policies, the consequences of which we are seeing today. The country has a terrifying, soft underbelly which is now...

Manufacturers of Coups and Bandits   

Coups and bandits are all the rage these days. Just the other day, December 7 to be exact, there was the hot news that soldiers...

Understanding Terrorism: A Nigerian Perspective

The debate raging in USA over the siting of a mosque near Ground Zero is a mark of a healthy society grappling with a painful problem. However, security concerns must not be taken lightly because of what extremists are capable of...

Lessons from Montecitorio and Madama

Italian politics and institutions do not enjoy the admiration and sympathy vote its people, country and culture are showered with...

SOAR’s Philosophy In Ending Violence In Africa

Cult pressure introduces young individuals to alcohol and drug abusers, instigating in them a psychopathological trauma of fear, and the need to seek for protection...

Hurrah As Obama's White House Summons Young African Leaders

One thing that President Obama, singer Whitney Houston and late Rt. Honorable Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe have in common is the appreciation and admiration of youths...

Aluta Continua, Victoria Acerta! A New Hope for African Youths

In the struggle for the realization of our people who have been long marginalized, we have had several prophets who amidst death, suffering and contemplative madness were intimidated by those who have perpetuated injustice for so long...

Tea Party for Africa?

Perhaps as a result of our faltered pre-independence history, or our near preoccupation in post-independence Africa with the inefficiency of our governments, we hardly ask ourselves whatever should be of the role of government in our daily lives...

Obama’s Difficult Presidency

President Obama has so far waged all the wars; with the Republicans, the Tea Party, a biased Fox news, Wall Street greed, Arizona immigration Laws, and the Taliban insurgents who are even more determined to spill American blood...

A Prayer for Africa

May we overcome the demons of ethnicity and religious strife; and recognize our common humanity as a people. May we come to regard difference and diversity as strength instead of weakness...

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Why Washington opposes Jonathan's reelection?

The Third Term's failure that led to Obasanjo vacating power made it difficult for Washington to be calling the oil shots. And despite Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's sickness, he stopped Washington from calling the oil shots...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Does The Rule Of Law Still Exist?

So many things have happened in Nigeria that are so unimaginable, to think of it will drain the tears in one's eye. I feel pity for Nigerians because we have suffered too much in the hands of these cabal...

Ibori et al and the Shameless Ones among Us

Ibori's ordeal looks like a replay of the Bayelsa story told above. But it's more shameful since he successfully evaded the Nigerian legal system, slipped off EFCC, and was bold enough to seek his party's presidential ticket...

Cheers, But Happy What?

I do feel like dragging a few things out of my diary to highlight why I, and of course, millions of Nigerians have continued to agonize as our weary beloved Nigeria has trudged on through the years...

A New Springtime for Young People: Father George Ehusani and the Rest of Us

Today’s world has succeeded in producing great material comfort and an alarming spiritual decline at the same time. In spite of the degree of ostentation, instant gratification and luxury with which modern life is now associated, many people still live lives devoid of happiness and tranquility...

Anticipatory Probe Report on NDDC: Matters Arising

The Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative, an accountability advocacy...

Governance, National Ethos And Succession Planning

The key failure of the post-colonial state in Africa...

Global War On Terror: A Case of Double Standards

The early January 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the...

Nigerians’ Travails, Endless Hunt for Change and the Gathering Storm: Where Lies the Hope?

A spectre is haunting our fatherland. What a spectre!, that is occasioned by the palpable atmosphere of discontent, feelings of dispossession, sense of abandonment and ignominy of existence...